SM034

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A Crowning Moment of Truth!

SM034   EP973 炎のバトル！ガラガラあらわる！！ Battle of Fire! Garagara Appears!!

First broadcast Japan July 20, 2017 United States October 7, 2017

English themes Opening Under The Alolan Sun Ending

Japanese themes Opening めざせポケモンマスター -20th Anniversary- Ending ポーズ

Credits Animation Team Kato Screenplay 面出明美 Akemi Omode Storyboard 樋口香里 Kaori Higuchi Assistant director サトウ光敏 Mitsutoshi Satō Animation director 石川てつや Tetsuya Ishikawa No additional credits are available at this time.

Screenshots on Filb.de Preview thread on BMGf Closed Original review thread on BMGf Dub review thread on BMGf

A Crowning Moment of Truth! (Japanese: 炎のバトル！ガラガラあらわる！！ Battle of Fire! Garagara Appears!!) is the 34th episode of the Sun & Moon series, and the 973rd episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on July 20, 2017 and in the United States on October 7, 2017.

Spoiler warning: this article may contain major plot or ending details.

Blurb

Our heroes attend the Wela Fire Festival, where Fire-type Pokémon line up to receive the Wela Crown—said to convey the power of Wela Volcano itself! Just as Ash’s Litten steps up, a feisty Alolan Marowak steals the crown from Kahuna Olivia and runs off. Kiawe pursues it, but Turtonator is no match for Alolan Marowak’s speed!

Ash offers to help Kiawe train against this quicker foe, and they come up with a strategy: use Shell Smash, a risky move that drops Turtonator’s defenses but makes it stronger and faster. In the rematch, Kiawe wins, and Marowak returns the crown—and then decides to join Kiawe’s team!

Plot

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Major events

• Kiawe's Turtonator is revealed to know Dragon Tail and learns Shell Smash.
• Kiawe catches an Alolan Marowak.

For a list of all major events in the animated series, please see the history page.

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

• Marowak (Kiawe's; Alola Form)

Characters

Humans

Dare da?

• Ash
• Lana
• Kiawe
• Lillie
• Sophocles
• Mallow
• Nurse Joy
• Professor Kukui
• Olivia
• Sima (flashback)
• Rango (flashback)
• Kiawe's grandfather (flashback)
• Hikers (×3)
• Trainers

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?

Who's That Pokémon?: Marowak (Alola Form)

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Rotom (Rotom Pokédex)
• Litten (Ash's)
• Popplio (Lana's)
• Turtonator (Kiawe's)
• Marowak (Kiawe's; Alola Form; new; debut)
• Vulpix (Lillie's; Alola Form; Snowy)
• Togedemaru (Sophocles's)
• Steenee (Mallow's)
• Blissey (Nurse Joy's)
• Magmar (Hiker's)
• Tepig (Trainer's; ×5)
• Cyndaquil (Trainer's; ×4)
• Numel (Trainer's; ×4)
• Fennekin (Trainer's; ×4)
• Houndour (Trainer's; ×3)
• Torchic (Trainer's; ×6; one in flashback)
• Darmanitan (Trainer's; ×2; one in flashback)
• Lampent (Trainer's; ×5; one in flashback)
• Magcargo (Trainer's)
• Litwick (Trainer's; ×6; one in flashback)
• Ponyta (Trainer's; ×2)
• Darumaka (Trainer's; ×3)
• Growlithe (Trainer's; ×4; one in flashback)
• Pansear (Trainer's; multiple; one in flashback)
• Litleo (Trainer's; ×2)
• Torkoal (Trainer's; ×3)
• Combusken (Trainer's; ×2)
• Braixen (Trainer's; ×2)
• Quilava (Trainer's; ×2)
• Pignite (Trainer's; ×2; one in flashback)
• Charmander (Trainer's)
• Slugma (Trainer's)
• Houndoom (Trainer's; ×2)
• Chimchar (Trainer's; ×2)
• Rapidash (Trainer's)
• Flareon (Trainer's)
• Fletchinder (Trainer's)
• Heatmor (Trainer's; ×2)

Trivia

A Hiker photobombing Ash, his classmates, Professor Kukui, and Olivia, a reference to Hiker David

• Poké Problem: What Pokemon does Turtonator fight in this episode?
  • Host: Kiawe
  • Choices: Salandit, Alolan Marowak, Growlithe, Magmar
  • Answer: Alolan Marowak
• All seven Fire-type starter Pokémon from the first seven generations appear in this episode.
• The three Hikers, their Magmar, and their habit of photobombing the pictures that the Rotom Pokédex was trying to take of the group are a reference to Hiker David, who has a similar habit, also uses a Magmar, and is battled during the trial at Wela Volcano Park, the setting of this episode, in Pokémon Sun and Moon.
• Mallow, Ash, and Pikachu narrate the preview for the next episode.
• The English dub title is similar to that of a previous episode.

Errors

• In one scene, the purple portion of Mallow's Steenee's body is colored white.
• During Kiawe's first flashback, a Lampent had a flame floating above it similar to a Litwick's flame.
• When the Alolan Marowak runs away with the Crown of Wela, a Numel, Quilava, and Fletchinder are shown to be much smaller than they should be, especially the Numel.
• When Lana turns towards to Lillie at the end of Kiawe's battle, her headband changes shape.
• During the Poké Problem, Kiawe was in front of his Turtonator as they went towards the stone oven at his house, but after his Alolan Marowak appeared and attacked Turtonator, Kiawe came running from behind Turtonator to catch the food that was thrown up in the air.

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  Small Quilava and Fletchinder

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  Lampent with Litwick's flame

Dub edits

• The Japanese text depicting Inferno Overdrive's names are edited out in the dub.

In other languages

Language		Title
Mandarin Chinese		火焰對戰！嘎啦嘎啦現身！！
Danish		Kronen på værket!
Dutch		Een kroon op het moment van de waarheid!
Finnish		Kaiken kruunaava totuuden hetki!
European French		Une précieuse couronne en balade !
German		Der krönende Moment der Wahrheit!
Italian		Il coronamento di un sogno!
Norwegian		Kronen på verket!
Brazilian Portuguese		A hora principal da verdade!
Latin American Spanish		¡La hora de la verdad suprema!
Swedish		En Kröning På Akala-Ön
Thai		การต่อสู้แห่งไฟ! การะการะปรากฏตัว!!

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